An interesting contribution to the religious and metaphysical history of Germany in the last generation will be found in the _Autobiography_ of BRETSCHNEIDER, now being published in parts, by his son-in-law Horst. It is described as a faithful as well as interesting narrative of the life of its deceased author and subject, who must fill a prominent place in the history of that great theological development of which his country has recently been the scene. He was a rationalist, but without aiming at the rejection or annihilation of the Christian supernaturalism. The sense of dependence on God, which was the foundation of Schleiermacher's theory, he regarded as stupid mysticism, and the general tendency of the more recent philosophy as obscure, abstruse, scholastic, and useless. He was a vigorous and unsparing controversialist, and the greater part of his writings are of that character. * * * * * DR. WURTH, the dramatist and theatrical director, has published a play "with choruses, dances, _and melodramas_ (_?_) entitled _The Gipsey Queen of Hungary in the year 1849_." * * * * * Those of our Philadelphia friends, who are conversant with foreign literature, will do well to patronise Herr CHRISTERN, who has recently opened an establishment of French, German, and Italian works at No. 232 Chesnut-st. Mr. Christern has been for several years the superintendant of the extensive bookstore of Kaisar, the eminent bibliographist in Berlin. We are happy thus to recommend Herr Christern as a scholar, well acquainted with something more than the mere titles of his wares. * * * * * Among "divers diversities," we note that the passion for Slavonic literature, which has received such an impetus during the last two years, has induced HERR SIEGFRIED KAPPER to write, after ancient Servian legends and heroic lyrics, a poem entitled _Lazar der Serbencar_. A new edition of CLEMENS BRENTANO'S _History of the brave Kasperl and fair Annerl_, has also been published at Berlin by the "United Bookselling Establishment," with an illustration. GLASSBRENNER, the humorist, (who is, however, we believe, not identical with his Rabelæsian pen-brother BRENNGLASER,) publishes by Simion of Berlin a third edition of his poems, while the more recent numbers of _Die Grenzboten_, the _Monatscrift_ and the _Europa_ are rich in a variety of articles surpassing in general interest any thing of the kind which we have for a long time witnessed in German periodical literature. It is to be wished that our own literati and miscellaneous intellectual purveyors would make a far more extended use of these German monthlies than they have hitherto done. Except the _International_, the _Tribune_ is almost the only periodical in the country that makes any considerable use of the German literary journals. * * * * *